Lucy the Elephant - Some Bacon in the Darkness - Margate, NJ
N 39° 19.247 W 074° 30.694
18S E 542102 N 4352488
Zippy definitely has a thing for this giant elephant. As if the beach weren't enough to attract people & cartoon characters alike, a huge pachyderm is apparently irresistible, this being Zippy's fifth visit. As usual, Zippy is his loquacious self.
Waymark Code: WM5WMZ
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 02/21/2009
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Constructed in 1881, this 65-foot wooden elephant stand guard over the NJ shoreline, a sentinel ever searching for foreign armadas on the attack. What naval fleet wouldn't turn rudder and sail back home at the site of this gigantic monster!
Not every town can boast a resident 65-foot wooden elephant. Lucy the Margate Elephant is the “largest elephant in the world” and is also the oldest remaining example of zoomorphic architecture left in the USA. The nearby water tower even has a picture of her painted on it (and yes it has been waymarked!).
Lucy was designed by William Free of Phila. and was constructed in 1881 by J. Mason Kirby, at a cost of $38,000. She is 65 feet tall, with legs 20 feet high and 10 feet in diameter. Her body has a circumference of 80 feet; her head is 58 feet around. She has also been moved from her original location. She was almost a heap of elephant skin at one time, but has since been fully restored and now stands protected by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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